CPCE Exam questions with 100% correct answers 2023

CPCE ExamWhen beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to do what related to confidentiality? - correct answer Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to do what related to the counseling process? - correct answer jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship? - correct answer Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do? - correct answer Accept or decline depending on the circumstances You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you are counseling. What do you do? - correct answer Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal information and obtain written permission from your client to share confidential information What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file? - correct answer Accept or decline depending upon circumstances You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state. You should... - correct answer Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat of being detrimental to the counseling process A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility in this case? - correct answer It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should decline You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so? - correct answer Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher, responsible for the student's behavior - correct answer Yes, you are ultimately responsible When publishing research, it is important to do what two things? - correct answer Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and submit material to only one journal at a time When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence? - correct answer Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics An ethics violation should NOT be reported when what two things happen? - correct answer A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in question; and when confidentiality rights would be violated What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to? - correct answer Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to specific groups and an approach that all counselors should ethically be aware of Most ethical issues are related to - correct answer Confidentiality Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he? - correct answer Erik Erikson The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - correct answer Sigmund Freud What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - correct answer Formal Operations Identity Crisis theorist - correct answer Erik Erikson positive psychology - correct answer processes that contribute to optimal functioning/ not focusing on abnormalities Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud is what type of fixation? - correct answer Oral Fixation